How can I OC My GTX 1080 to the MAX?

[Randy Marsh]

My Specs

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[Omega]

Max the voltaged to a point where you are not killing the card and it doesn't overheat. On Pascal cards the cooler they run the higher they will boost, so overclocking might not always provide you with a performance boost; especially if you push it too far.

Then just run a benchmark in the background and start raising the clocks until it crashes. When it crashes decrease the clock a little bit and fine-tune the overclock, get every Mhz you can without.

[Omega]

https://youtu.be/SKWbKCKsWVQ

Usually a CPU overclock will gain your a much larger performance boost. And Pascal overclocks like a brick and that combined with the "Throttling" it does at anything higher then 50c.

[Monk]

I really need to write my guide for this lol, first of all I'd overclock your CPU so you can make full unrestricted use of your GPU.

From there, my easy overclocking guide basically includes downloading a few programs, MSI afterburner, this is how you will be overclocking the card.
Unigine heaven, this will be running windowed while tuning for the quick and easy down and dirty testing and finally 3dmark firestrike for final testing and tweaking.
It's worth running firestrike before you start so you can measure any increases.

To help, setup afterburner's on screen display to show you clocks and memory etc.

Now, on MSI afterburner go into options and unlock voltage control, then turn voltage slider, Ali g with power and temp targets to max, don't worry, you can't get anywhere near to giving it to much power with these sliders, it's hard capped on the card and you need to short circuit the shunts to go beyond these settings (as I have, but won't recommend).
With the card now unlocked, go to fan profile and max it out, it'll be noisy, but, pascal needs to be cool to go fast, you can adjust this later anyway.

Now to begin overclocking, start with the core, ignore the Vram for now, you'll tweak that after.

With unigine heaven set to a loop at the highest settings in the background windowed, begin to increase the core clock 10MHz at a time, let heaven complete a loop and then push it up again, rinse and repeat until it crashes, at which point pull it back 5MHz, the usual times crashes will occur are at the begining, circling the dragon, going over the ships cannons and through the rooftops, in general if it doesn't crash at any of those spots your good to keep going, of course always try it a couple of times if it does crash to ensure it was the OC that cause the issue.

With the core maxed out, move onto the memory, this time you can increase it 50MGz at a time, you'll likely get between 400-600 boost here, again,once it crashes pull it back 25MHz, and you are done.

Now boot up 3d mark firestrike to test and make sure it validates, followed up by some games.
So e games do not like overclocks, so save your OC profile so you can quickly disable it, Fortnite for instance always crashes if I have my OC active (only game for me).

[⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧]

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My Specs

https://valid.x86.fr/tkimqr

Before you go with oc to the max, make sure u have a decent psu.

Just to play save instead of russian roulette with your hardware...
I saw enough rigs with high-end parts combined with a cheap/the cheapest low-end crap unit.

[Malygos]

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Before you go with oc to the max, make sure u have a decent psu.

Just to play save instead of russian roulette with your hardware...
I saw enough rigs with high-end parts combined with a cheap/the cheapest low-end crap unit.

I have about 650 watts Power Supply

Youll be fine i have my 1080 and 7700k overclocked on a 650w psu

[⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧]

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Before you go with oc to the max, make sure u have a decent psu.

Just to play save instead of russian roulette with your hardware...
I saw enough rigs with high-end parts combined with a cheap/the cheapest low-end crap unit.

I have about 650 watts Power Supply

Yeah but brand/series? Watts means not rly that much, u can buy enough 650w low-end units like corsair vs, cx, evga b, thermaltake smart, or no-names and so on.

[Monk]

Your PSU will be fine.

[⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧]

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Yeah but brand/series? Watts means not rly that much.

its a 650 Watts Corsair

vs, cx, ax, hx ?

[Monk]

While some are better than others, it won't really cause any issues with him overclocking it, it won't come close to pulling to much power, honestly, people tend to stress a bit to much about the PSU, it's not as bad as it used to be.

[Malygos]

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Youll be fine i have my 1080 and 7700k overclocked on a 650w psu

What are your settings for CPU and GPU for OC? I'm very new at this.

Try conservative settings first 4.7ghz on the cpu at around 1.25v if that works fine through testing up to 4.8 and so until you crash then up voltage slowly since i dont know your cooling monitor your temps at all times. Gpu overclocking is so easy a monkey could do it on these cards with after burner up your core clock to about 125mhz and memory to 300mhz your temp and power should be maxed but your voltage curve id say 30% starting out

[Omega]

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Youll be fine i have my 1080 and 7700k overclocked on a 650w psu

What are your settings for CPU and GPU for OC? I'm very new at this.

You can't simply copy/paste his settings. Every chip OCs differently.